Re: Req: info on IP range popup ad software supposedly called "Extreme Marketing"

From: Joe Schmoe (nomail@forme.com)
Date: 12/31/02

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    From: "Joe Schmoe" <nomail@forme.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:13:17 -0500

    On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:23:59 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:

    <snip>
    >>I dunno, maybe I am missing something here. Let's say you and me are both
    >>using mediaone as our ISP, your assigned IP is 207.46.249.222, mine is
    >>207.46.249.223...
    >
    > My perspective was as an ISP that provides Internet connections to
    > enterprises, not consumer-grade broadband connections.
    <snip>

    Sorry Barry, I should have made what I was trying to convey clearer in the
    first place. I was thinking in this context because from what the OP
    described, I assumed that the spammer was doing this from a home computer.
    I do not know what type of connection he was planning to use this with.
     
    In your context though I would have to agree that he would not be able to
    spoof an IP that could not be traced back at least to his organisation
    providing the ISP was filtering.

    Where I used to live I had braodband through mediaone ( who knows what they
    are called now ), and they used to issue your IP based on the MAC
    address of your NIC, that type of setup was easy to spoof.

    Where I live now, our cable co. just looks at the MAC of the cable modem,
    they also use some type of interdiction system that I don't quite
    understand where they have to install a card out at the pole. So I'm not
    sure if the same approach would work here.

    But all this is becoming moot anyway with the explosion of wireless, all
    you have to do is sniff out an unsecured wap and there is no need to cover
    any tracks.

    Joe

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